Francis Bacon Quotes
I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity and chance.
Quotes to Explore
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The new technologies that we see coming will have major benefits that will greatly alleviate human suffering.
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The truth about people at every economic level of life is you get those who are kind and who are not, those who are greedy, whether they be rich or poor. That's a common thread through humanity on any street you go to.
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I've really been writing a lot of country songs. I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind,' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.
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Television is democracy at its ugliest.
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I watch a lot of television. I always have.
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I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.
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Even a genius cannot completely resist his Zeitgeist, the spirit of his time.
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My personal philosophy is that people should be extremely selfish for the first half of their life and extremely unselfish for the second half because then they can do the most good.
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And so, the youngsters you have today, even though there are far fewer of them - in World War II 16.5 million men and women in uniform, today roughly a million in uniform in spite of the fact that the country is almost twice as large a population as we had in World War II.
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Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.
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When people are poor, they find ways of making things taste like fish.
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I wish I could play the World Cup; that's one of my dreams.
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If you aren't born here, to be a real New Yorker, you have to bring your talent, be a successful mentor, and support the New Yorkers who made the city by giving back.
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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Some people don't understand that I - as an artist and a person - I want to make my own decisions and create the music that I personally like.
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I'm just not very funny.
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I'm a big routine guy. I have to have everything in threes.
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I tried to hostess... but they fired me after four days because I couldn't figure out how seating plans worked.
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By nature I mean here, like the naïvest realist, a composite of perceiver and perceived, not a datum, an experience. All I wish to suggest is that the tendency and accomplishment of this painting are fundamentally those of previous painting, straining to enlarge the statement of a compromise.
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I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity and chance.
